Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.